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The beginning of 2017 was a busy time for cancer awareness, with the World Health Organization (WHO) putting out its Guide to Cancer Early Diagnosis in anticipation of World Cancer Day on February 4, and the release of one of the most highly anticipated publications every year: The annual American Cancer Society (ACS) Cancer Facts & Figures report—a detailed study of population-based cancer incidence and mortality in the U.S. that teases apart trends across cancer types and demographics.
This year, “we found that the cancer death rate is continuing to decline and has in fact dropped by about 25 percent in the past couple of decades,” says the report’s lead author, Rebecca Siegel, strategic director of the ACS’s Surveillance Information Services. “The reason that’s important ...
